[chef] Re: Re: Re: metadata and cookbook names

[Lucian Ciufudean < >]

Thanks, I asked this because I'm seeing all kinds of community
content. For example cookbook 'subversion' got a name attribute in
metadata.rb only 11 months ago.

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:04 PM, steve . 
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> metadata.rb is definitely required.
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> In fact, I believe the cookbook name in metadata.rb is actually honored over
> the directory name...
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> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Andrew Gross 
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>> 1. Assume metadata.rb is required. I am not 100% sure if Chef can operate
>> without one in the cookbook, but you should set up a commit hook so that it
>> forces the metadata.rb file to exist.
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>> 2.  The name is metadata.rb is respected. All dependency resolvers should
>> unpack the cookbooks and parse the metadata file to find the name.
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>> For an example check out "cookbook-elasticsearch".
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>> https://github.com/elasticsearch/cookbook-elasticsearch/blob/master/metadata.rb
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>> The name in metadata.rb is "elasticsearch" and that is how it is referred
>> to internally.
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>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Lucian Ciufudean
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>>  wrote:
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>>> Hi guys,
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>>> A have a couple of questions in this area:
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>>> 1. Is the metadata.rb file mandatory in a cookbook?
>>> 2. if metadata.rb is present, and it specifies a different name than
>>> the cookbook archive filename, which is the name considered by
>>> cookbook dependency resolution alg during a chef-run?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lucian
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